day no. 14,879: it's a dogma eat dogma world

The world will never be content to be tolerated. They demand to be celebrated. They do not want to merely be allowed to exist. They insist that their existence be welcomed with all the accouterments and party favors of a congratulatory soiree. It isn't enough to let them throw the party or have access to a meeting room to put up banners. They insist that you attend the party. They insist that you clap at the right moment and remain silent in solemnity when appropriate. Totalitolerance is the end game. The long, slow march through the institutions does not intend to stop at mere tolerance, but at acceptance in the form of applause, adoption, normalization, domination and monotheistic assiduity under the Head of the Spirit of their Age.

All belief systems aim to bring everything under one Head. It is inescapable. It is not a question of whether we will have a dogma, but which a question of which one we will have. It is not a matter of asking if dogmas seek to devour everything, but how they try to consume their adversaries. The trajectory of all human history is absorption and consumption. The question is not if this will happen, but rather into what and by Whom will we be absorbed and consumed?

Ephesians 1:8-10
The mystery of His will, according to his purpose, which He set forth in Christ 10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in Him, things in heaven and things on earth.

The difference between Christianity and the Spirit of the Age is that Christians understand that they are clearly on a mission of world conquest and confess openly that their intention is to see every knee bow and tongue confess Christ as Lord through repentance before they are forced to do so by regret.

Philippians 2:8-10
At the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

As per usual, Chesterton in prophetic voice, envisioned this 100 years ago when he observed...

"The special mark of the modern world is not that it is sceptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it. It says, in mockery of the old devotees,that they believed without knowing why they believed. But the moderns believe without knowing what they believe- and without even knowing that they do believe it. Their freedom consists in first freely assuming a creed, and then freely forgetting that they are assuming it. In short, they always have an unconscious dogma; and an unconscious dogma is the definition of a prejudice. They are the dullest and deadest of ritualists who merely recite their creed in their subconsciousness, as if they repeated their creed in their sleep. A man who is awake should know what he is saying, and why he is saying it- that is, he should have a fixed creed and relate it to a first principle. This is what most moderns will never consent to do. Their thoughts will work out to most interesting conclusions; but they can never tell you anything about their beginnings. They have always taken away the number they first thought of. They have always forgotten the very fact or fancy on which their whole theory depends." - G.K. Chesterton (1919)